Surrounded by mountains, the peak of the royal capital is covered with mushroom-like towns and villages.
With the royal capital as the center, these villages had farms and windmills built everywhere. The original royal capital was no longer just a small area, but a huge city that was more than ten times larger than before.
Garen stood far away on the white road, looking at this huge city that was once shrouded in absolute shelter, with an unusually calm expression.
The absolute protection above the head has long since completely disappeared, and there is no trace of the power of the totem in the entire air.
He walked along the driveway and hardly saw anyone with the power of a totem among the people he met.
There was faint music from the radio in a tire repair shop on the roadside not far away, and a little boy was humming to himself while sorting out the things in the shop.
Two oxcarts were approaching with some unsold fruits. There was a wooden sign with a directional sign on the side. The wooden sign pointing to the front read "Fangshi Road".
He didn't mean to make any announcements. After coming all the way and exploring the current world situation, Garen knew what a huge meaning his face, which had not aged for decades, represented in this period of time.
He walked forward slowly, his pace seemed slow, but in fact it was far faster than an average person's walking speed.
Passing through several small towns and villages outside the city, the sky was gradually turning dark, and the mountain road surrounding the once heavily guarded entrance to the royal capital was not far ahead.
There is no one stationed in the garrison tower. Now is the peaceful era. The arrow tower is no longer a threat in the era of rampant cannons. A sign refusing to visit is hung on the door.
After finding a carriage that went up the mountain, Gallon was kindly taken up the mountain by a talkative old coachman. It was like a ride, and the two of them asked and chatted while walking.
The old man had also experienced the war years, and he had no doubts about the totem masters. During the conversation, he kept lamenting how young people today did not believe in the original changes and how they did not respect historical facts. He wanted to absolutely protect and cover the royal capital back then.
I don’t know how many elderly people have seen it with their own eyes.
Now that many old people have passed away and the power of totems has declined, the young people of the new era have begun to doubt the legend and power of totem masters, but they do not believe that they can compare with the current cannons. They think that everything is just for their generation.
Slowly becoming awe and deification in my mind.
Garen nodded in agreement from time to time, and he also knew a lot about the current situation in the royal capital.
After learning that Kurosawa Palace has now turned into a comprehensive university, and that the talented disciple he recognized at the beginning has actually become one of the two most accomplished students in Kurosawa Palace, and is also in power in Cowaitan, it is
A very important person in the country.
Garen felt an unconscious emotion in his heart. Time flies by, but he never expected that the little guy back then would now become a pillar-like big shot.
When it was almost completely dark, Garen got off the bus at the gate of the royal city on the top of the mountain. The gate had no guards for a long time, and there were many vehicles going in and out. Many people went up the mountain to have fun at night, and those who left the city at night returned to their own manors and small homes, flowing like a stream.
Constantly flowing through the city gate.
Houses within the Royal Capital are too expensive. Many people who cannot afford to live there have to settle in the outer areas. Over time, large areas of various residential areas have emerged outside the Royal Capital and on the mountainside, and the entire Royal Capital has become a veritable city within a city.
Gallon walked in the direction of his cousin Hathaway's small building with ease.
The road connections that were built decades ago have been built in many places, and many new buildings have been built, and many places have been modified.
He still asked a lot of questions before he finally found the small building where Hathaway was located.
At night, standing outside the small building, Gallon looked up at the little yellow lights on the second floor of the small building. Without the power of totems in this world, the technological road that was originally slow to develop suddenly flourished.
With the background of Totem Workshop Master's research, the development of science and technology far exceeded people's imagination, and the emergence of electricity also came into being.
This was originally an unstable energy source discovered by totem masters in accidental experiments. After the power of the totem disappeared, it finally quickly replaced the original totem application status.
Those workshop masters are also called scientists by modern people.
The electric light is a new product invented by these scientists.
Garen glanced at a sentry box on duty outside the small building. There was also a dozing guard inside.
Silently, he passed by the sentry box lightly, jumped up and landed in the courtyard behind the iron gate.
Walking to the door of the small building, I lightly shook the door with my palm, and with a crisp click, the door was gently opened.
On the sofa in the living room, a white-haired old man with a white towel draped over his knees caught his eye.
Perhaps the sound of the door opening attracted the old man's attention. She put down the book in her hand and raised her head to look over here.
After looking at it, he never lowered his head again.
Garen stared blankly at the old man on the sofa. More than fifty years have left a deep mark on this once heroic and beautiful cousin. Her originally smooth and fair skin has turned into a wrinkled and saggy skin.
The skin and beautiful eyes that were originally bright and clear have turned into the somewhat cloudy and peaceful eyes of an old man.
With snow-white hair, Garen could only vaguely see the inexplicable image of his former cousin in his overall inexplicable temperament.
"You...are you his grandson?" Hathaway's voice was a little hoarse.
Garen shook his head and looked at the once beautiful and heroic cousin in front of him with a hint of tenderness in his eyes.
"It's me."
he whispered.
"I'm back."
Hathaway's old eyes trembled fiercely. This familiar way of speaking, this familiar tone and expression, time seemed to flash back to more than fifty years ago, when the handsome and powerful young man seemed to have only been out for a few days.
When I got home, I said calmly, "I'm back."
Hathaway's eyes were moist. She had been waiting for more than fifty years. But now, time has passed and she has become like this, but Galen is still the same as before.
"Stop lying to me...Did Danni ask you to join forces to lie to me? Did she give you the key?" She suddenly thought of something again, then shook her head and smiled bitterly.
"Is Dani okay?"
Hathaway suddenly fell silent.
She suddenly realized that she no longer knew how to face Garen. After waiting for decades, what would be the result of the current situation? Today, without the power of the totem, the seventy-year-old is actually already
Approaching the limit of current average life span.
She was already about to die, and Galleon... Hathaway laughed to herself, she didn't believe that the young man in front of her was the Galleon back then.
"When did he leave?" she asked suddenly.
Gallon was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Hathaway thought he was dead, and before he died, he asked his 'grandson' to come over and find his former friend.
After all, she still didn't believe that Garen was still so young back then.
Suddenly, a faint loneliness surged from the deepest part of Garen's heart.
He looked at the old man on the sofa, walked forward, knelt down gently and kissed the back of her hand.
"Don't wait any longer..."
After saying that, Garen stood up, turned around and left the room silently.
Hathaway didn't say another word behind her.
Maybe neither of them knows how to face each other again.
Over the years, Hathaway has truly become the mistress of Blackpool Palace of the Terry Jones family. She adopted a grandson of her sister Dani and became the next generation heir to the palace master of Blackpool Palace.
This little grandson is extremely outstanding and has the full support of the current military chief.
And now, even if Garen comes back, what's the point? Apart from disturbing everyone's peaceful life, he no longer has a place here.
Everyone, including Effie, Kongqin, Tiannu, etc., everyone thought that Garen was dead.
Died in the deepest abyss of the ocean that is forever frozen.
The royal capital even erected a monument to him as a great man, and every year dignitaries and nobles came to pay their respects.
As for showing up again and taking charge of Kurosawa Palace again? What’s the point of that?
When Garen founded this organization, apart from establishing ears and eyes, his deepest thought was just to leave traces of the Baiyun Sect in this world. Unfortunately, he died in the secret martial arts world, so he could only leave his mark in this world.
The inheritance of teacher Fei Baiyun.
There are traces of the Giant Elephant Secret Martial Arts everywhere in the Black Water True Skill, which is actually equivalent to the totem version of the White Cloud Secret Martial Arts. This is enough.
Quietly leaving the small building, Garen slowly walked on the brightly lit streets of the capital. On both sides were night stalls and night markets, snacks, clothing decorations, small gifts, balloon shooting games, street gambling, and all kinds of other things.
Watching the night market activities, Garen felt as if he had returned to Earth.
Unknowingly, he walked to the employment guild by himself.
The original employment guild now only has one real bar left, and the customers coming in and out are fat and fat businessmen with fat bellies and all kinds of slender waitresses. Or boys and girls dressed in fashionable clothes.
Loud music wafted out from the bar, and even standing outside the door, you could feel the rhythmic beating of drums inside.
Garen let go of his five senses and looked inside the bar.
There is no one with totem power inside, they are all just young people. Occasionally, I saw a few young officers with black military pistols on their waists, which is a very intimidating presence here.
As for the Totem Division mercenaries? And Angel, who Garen came to look for unconsciously, the friend who initially joined him in the yoke of war, has completely lost his breath. I don’t know if he is dead or has left...
Garen stood at the door of the bar for a while, staring blankly at the bar. It wasn't until a few beautiful girls coming in and out came over to strike up a conversation that he slowly turned around and left.
"Fifty years...who is still alive?" he asked himself.
Who are the friends from back then who are still there?
He unconsciously walked in the direction of Kurosawa Palace. The street night market with people and cars coming and going made him feel unconsciously lonely.